The Sun. — London, England, 1818-01-16 00:00:00

OF Tk E .ULl\ CATIIOOC QUESTION 1 . 0.1 TM: SUN. PART if. EntTon.--Tlie introduction '6f a 'foreign, civil, 'and religious power among us, was criMinal against our Crown, antrpunishable by the perialacs of premunire, long before the Reformation, When .we wisely/renounced all anthority of Roinish`tyran ny, though some of the corrupt doctrine of the Romish Church remained with us for some - tiine longer, until rooted out by subsequent provisions' and the wisdom of the times ; but this religious power growing contemptible, the rigour against "Popery has been softened by a general toleration, agreeably to the just principles of religious liberty. They are now left to an open enjoyment of their seven sacraments ; but they are not admitted into civil, military, or newel offices of trust and power; of which they complain. Not to visit the sins ; of forefathers on their children, let us look back on the cause of their exclusion. The Corporation Act of Parliament comprehended %ann.!) Catholic malcontents, in whose hands it Was thought dangerous to leave any power over t oeporate hodiei,• as they had ,riven no 'proOf of fidelity to the' ruling Gove;rn itient. h ordained, ehat all magistrates wlao kid either usurped a civil office, or held principles un friendly to thetonstitution, should •disetaim the covenant against the 'and liturgy . of the Established Chili - ch . ; and `declare their belief that resistance, with force and arms, is not law ful. This Act cleansed the 'Corporations of all theiloman Catholic Magistrates, and their int purities, in the 13th year of our Ctlitit.t.t the Ed., who nevertheless, as he thought, in the ; exercise of his supremacy, afterwards issued bus proclamation suspending the penalties against them, and indulging them in the use of their re ligion in their private houses ; but the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal having refused . to put it thereto, was removed, and the ambidextcr SHAFTSBURY succeeded Min i who Fealed it in con-- sequence. At the instance, however, of the }louse of Commons, who deemed it ii/egar ; the King soon recalled it. This produced the statute called the Test Act, which ordained that none should have command in ,t he Army and Navy but those Who would take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, with the sacrament in the Established Church ; consequently Its Catholics were. exclnded.' The rielormation therefore, the doWnfal of the monasterirs (those sinks of idleness, h)•pocrisv, and inici , niy), the forfeiture of their lauds, and, then the 'COrpOratioa and Test Acts, were severe blows upon. them, and resentment swelled their hearts ; yet all tLeir er;nduct justified their ex elusion by the Legislature. Their original and progressive encroachments on the liberty and pro- perty of the kingdom ; their ustapatiOns; the black designs of the Jesuits under ELtzmacTrr, and of' the Papists under the new EstAlishment ; their hopes of a Popish Successor in the Queen of Scots ; the Gunpowder Plot against JAMES the First and his Parliament ;, the intrigues of HEN- ItIETTA, the Queen of CHARLES the First ; the expectation of a Popish King in JAmEs the Secon d; [he Assassination Plot tmder King Wtt.LrAm the third ; and the declared claims of a Popish Pre tender to the Crown. in the following reigns,--goo well warranted their exclusion from all civil' trust and power ; but which, from their more peace able demeanour since those times, has bt en re laxed in memory, respecting their religious prM eiples ;'and provided their actions be not influenced by them, to the annoyance of the State, they have an undoubted right to enjoy them. It is this that is to he gnarded against ; and until they nottrace. their errors, in holding no communion with Protestants of the Church established, they cannot call themselves' genuine Mettibus of the . . 'State, whereof THAT CtirACH IS A COMPONENT FA LIT. (Te be Continued soon in Part ILL-) , ITALIAN . BANDITTI.-Liellt.•CO011el thaarEs and Captain - Got:box; It. N.; were, attacked in their way to Naples, between Terracina and Fondi, by banditti, on the evening Of, the I?.th . December. Tire first act of the villains was to fire upon the postillion'rrithour previOus Warning. Ile fell, mortally wounded. They then proceeded to rifle the travellers, and took trOns them their watches, money, &c. The banditti were divided into two parties, one of which was iturnediatery tictive in the attack and robbery, while the other remained in reserve at a short distance ; and their number %vas So considerable that Lieut.-Colonel: HERRIES and his companion must be considered as owing their lives to their being unprepared to Offer any resistance. They suffered little personal violence, and were 21lowett, when the plunder was finished, to proceed on their journey —their servant taking the place of the postillion,whowas Conveyed to Timdi in the carriage. Lient.Xolo tiel Hartaiss was .on his way to join the-British head-quarters in the Mediterranean,. as Deputy Quarter-Master-Generai., (Morning 1'444 N Ffilt TILE S I; N. EtrTog,--The Subscription At present go ing on for the relief of our distressed Seamen, is undoubtedly highly creditabFe to the justice and liberality of the Britishldie. But it may be well to inquire, with reference to other considera tions, whether a more effectual relief, combined with objects of vital interest to the nation, could not be afforded, by increasing the naval force, both at home and on the foreign stations ?, In the Message lately delivered by-the President of the United States (and which cotemporary Prints describe as breathing only moderation and peace), a determibation is avowed to increase progressively and systematically, the naval force of that country ; and well aware that the ships themselves constitute but a part of the essentials of such a force, although without a single colony, or seemingly an ostensible object (sinc,e oor expe dition to Algiers), the American flag now floats in every sea, and their ships of war, fully manned and appointed, command respect, and attract admira tion in every quarter of ale gbibe. Their ships.are not; permitted to rot in ordinary, ‘ nor •is it necessary there to suppott: Their_ prime, seamen by charity, Which, 'however:mnotitahle Cos: tl,e donors, 'cantini fair to 'vt% - ontid,:theininds of those who are its objects, sandllcpri i ve .them . of the proper feefing3 of British Seamen. When the amount of the tonnage of necessity reduced the Transport Service, together with the unparalleled and (as I contend) tmcalled-for reNction of the naval force, are considered, what alternative remains to our gallant Seamen, but to . transfer their services to foreign Powers, or to starve at home ) That our Peace Establishment is at present un paralleled, a reference to the Peace Etabliihment of 1784 will easily prove, when on .the - North American, Jamaica, and Lee Ward Island stations, it was fixed at 6 Ships of 50 guns each, 19 frigates, 28 to 136 guns 56 Sloops and Cutters, 12 to 20 :gems, Total 81 sail ; whilbt at preseiii, on the SAtne statious, it copsists 0, 1 Ship of 50 guns, 2 Frigates, 50 guns each, • - • , 36 tO 33, II SlOopS, .16 fo 20; • Total 17 sail, or, less, than oue•fourth.of the force before kept. U. In 1784, it must be considered that no idea Was, or could be, entertained of the ertetion.of anal power in those seas likely t 0 prove so for- midable as that of the United States i r s calculated to become on that elenrent,—that the Country was then emerging from a doubtful and. dangerous conflict, when the most sanguine stood appalled at our financial difficulties, and the prospects of continental tranquillity which now open•upootts, could not reasonably be anticipated, The debates in Pailiament and state of the Foods fully de monstrate the fears then entertained for our finances, yet the Minister of that day felt too much the vita} importance of the Navy to this Country to tamper nich it by ill-judged economy, owever anxious to restore our tPikipi.tiate,cl finntlees. Of the difficulty of manning our Navy .at the moment of 'wed, some idea may be etitettahted from the fitting out of the late Expel Hawk to Algiers, at a time when'the reduction of oar force and emigration of our seamen had not been carried so fay as they now ha►•e bee*. Ot the ioferiority of ships recently mappedArld eAurrtnanded by Officers long out of employroo4, to ships in conticued senice, the Right 171pnAhe Board of Admiralty must be welt aware, Binh! think every Englishman must agree with, e, that _ . the economy which deprives the Comitry of fl it services of so many brave :Men, ane.cenders.* manymore dependent on ' public - eharity, , 4s2heit only highly in the present conjunetriire', brit quite uncalled fur in the ['rutin finaticitd of the Country. I am, Sir, Jen 181 ENGLISHNItPX. ' The wometa that thr tlissokat the taid'ae.. eral Court Alartial released Lietttenunt-Co-lOOel Moss from the soremn injunction imposetrby'the Court, he felt himself called upon, by the Often., sive paragraph in CARI:ICe9 amyl' (alreridy came of a duel between' hint amyl' . the atithoa, tii demand an explanation from the Tippet - all - Ge t , denim) alluded to, Mr. FALKIN . ER ; and thafGen tleman, in the most wanly manner, and as becathe an old member of the corps, sent him the f0116% , -; ing for publication : • " Cardin Ham TLTONT, as the friend of Colonel ItoStgliov ing produced to me a paragraph inserted in. Carrieklet..lllrl,- ing Pont of the 30th ultimo. I declare that I never sa.ticti ow d the insertion of such a paragraph, and that the said pal a: graiiik is a misrepresentation of words used Ity'nee itr-a meat tof irritation, produced by an expression, tioed b 7 Coload Ross, which expression Captain Hamilton, declares , from his own knowledge, and by the desire of Colima Ross, was used' in pure jcst. _ _ Lw consequence of that explanation, and of tn.! u t i 3c3n . seption of Colonel puss's expression, I regret exceedinglylow ing used any hasty words that could have ivoniideti Colonel Rose's feelings, or, by their misrepresentation, ha , re let! to a lincountre which might have proved fatal to so old; afriend. " RICHARD FALKINER. Jun. ‘ ll Mount-Falcon, Jan. lA, I (publii) Corre spondent, Jan, 14.) THEATRE (.! A REGISTE Pe►lin-met/ Lus/ Nit l;t. I)i►ut+rte DnlGf Yort IhB Principal 'Cliaracti'rs by Ntr..fileatt and Mrs. ,after which, Harlequin's . Tat:a:tic Coviisif-,G.AttnEm.—;-Aitaxerxes Arhaces, Mr. liraham ; Stepkens. After which (tSt t hue), Three Miles trtnisl l aris. To b:::biat was added, Hai le►luin Gulliver. :HALLS. Min7nEn-1 France, I Nialta, I Holland, 2 1-larnbun:ll, Flanders, 4 Gutteulnrgla, 1 Gdernsey and Jersey, 2 Waterford. . . PRICE OF STOCKS THIS HAY AT TVVLVE ( . CIMCK. . . • Bank Stock 9_!Th l Bank L. Allll I 5-let Ils 3 iier Cent. 11.4 . 41....501 SI 804 I ludix linntls.t..lo(ls. )98s. pr. 3 per Cent. Cons. 801-ft Exch.Bills 2IS. :ios. pr. 4 per Cents 9,34,1 Cuns.for 141-1 5 per Cent. Nary ADO. 1054 ai . . „ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning; I I minutes after Jo. j Evening, 36 minutes after to. THE SUN. SOLCM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUU}AT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1818. No Paris Papers 143ve arrived this morning.-- ' Two days' journals are again due. This morning,-We' — r7ceived Washiogton Papers the I3th . of December, but . contain no later news of the Congress than what we had be fore. :The National Intelligencer of the 13th gives the following : CHAR . L'ETON, DEC. 11.—We have been in formed, and from the best authority, that all the disposab}e forces on the sea board of North Ca• rolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, under the comurand of Colima BAN:Li-IEI ), are ordered to rendezvous forthwith at some point at the St. Mary's River. DEC. 12.—A detachment of United States troops sailed trom this port yesterday, in the schooner Patsy, to aid, it is supposed, in the re duction of Amelia island. (From the New York Advertiser, Dee,. 16 ) h is stated from New,Orleans, that there were brought into that market during the year ending with September, 28,000 hogsheads tobacco, 190,000 barrels flour, 65,000 bates cotton, and 250,000 gallons whiskey. Letters received front Quebec say, that a Pro. clatnatimi had been published there, stating that the . I'mvincial-Legislature would meet for the dis. patch ,of businesi.On'lihe ,: ,74h , of January. . . The complaint wlrich we yesterday giatte of the brutal treatment - our CountrynieU, and even our Counirywortien; experience from the French, has attracted the notice of The British-Press, wbiels, however, does not deny, but rather indeed"adinits it, and alledges, as a reason why the Englisb ar e worse treated than the Prussians anti the Russians, that " if England be hated in Paris more than airy other nation, it is because she is considered the principal agent in defeating the purpose of the Revolution, and restoring a fatoily to the Throne which fequirei the pre sence of a foreign artery to retain it there.'' The British Press seems to treat THE Sots with sar castic pity for not knowing that this was the rea son of Gallic discontent and hostility towards . Englishmen. But we rather ought to retort this contemptuous compassion on The Press for not exulting that Great Britain was really the principal agent in defeating the purpose of a Revolution, which brought. the greatest miseries and horrors upon France, and the purpose of which was to spread the same dreadful evils over all other Coilntries. As to the restoration ~of :the govaaOrts, we exult lit their restoration, because we prefer the regularity of a legitimate Government:. to. the tyranny of - a-set of bloody Republicans, or that of Military Usurper, and if it be indeed neCaisary' that a foreign Army should' remain in Flit, nee :to, keep them on the Tbrone, we still more pity, The Briti,h Press for complaining that they: remain there to protect Vratice from a renewal, of its horrOrs mut its- miseries, and to guard the rest of Europe front a baleful contagion. Messrs. OTALLtectrAs, PHELAN,. and NEW.. nol.T, whose :Iris! came on this day, at the Old Bailey, on a charge of Mulder, for the Death of Lieutenant 13111..EY, in the recent Duel, were foOinid Guiyy'of Manslaughter. that Air. CIIOK ER , ;S:t9 :,tlteteed to tic 'l'~easiirershit~ arf the Navy, experience iit.his present s•itnation, as :Fecretary to . t.he Ad nikalty," and his general knowledue and taltuts, certainly will qtralify-hitn for the office. 'lke Court of King's Bench was vestertlayne cnpied with tile trial of actions to recover com pensation for the injury suStainTed by imiividuills intbe City in the Riot or he 2tf December, 1516. A full Report of these 'faAs is given in our Last rage. Sllll 4 RJAN. Good Win Satnl on Tuesday Hi& proves to b e the Ainiwell, 'of Ely, lit.Ews, Master, from-Sii° 'tor London, With nuts and capers. The iklater , two scanted, and a passenger, landed at Bice' . stairs ; the Mate, a boy, and a passenger draw" - ed. Some of the nuts; - &c..are-landed, both there . and at fhiS place.—The Dutch galliot Vervvsc, MuLi)aN, lions Lisbon for orders, arrive d late last night, with loss of anchors and cable° , and other 'damage ; 'as also the Fairfield, of Aber" MoniilS, front Lisbon, with anchor tio d cable lost.—From th'e report of the people til sc have been olf to the Sand, the wreck of di' schooner Friendship,' of Newcastle, lies on tile inner part of the North Sand Head, instead of ell the North part of the Brake, as reported by th e crew. MARGATE, JAN. 15.—Camt into Kingsge ° Bay yesterday afternoon, with loss of anchor 0 14 table, the brig Ariatine, DuNcAs, from Landoll for St. Domingo'. the brig tittoria, : of Dublin, MIKEN,ztE, fra irt Newcastle for Plymouth, went on the Knoci t. Aunt fthir o'clock on Tuesday morning, and is It?' tally lost the Master and Crew retrained .eltpos.c 4 on the Wreck 3G hours, and were rescued 0 0 ' their desperate situation yesterday - afternoon br the lugger King George; of this portwhich IL 4d gone o' ff with tile prospect of saving some.; 04 ntaterials of the Argo, but diecoirered the riTieci‘ of the Vittoria at the moment they were allot t t't° board the hull of the Argosy they iuunediatelY abandoned that project, and with gine!' difficult/ anti danger succeeded iu their betteifdetli tion, and landed the suf f erers here in safely ha t night. DEAL, JAN. B.—Two or three vessels fo r° come in this morning —particula rs unknow►► The blips in the Downs have struck t(T .. g „illat masts, and appe►►r to ride all Weil. The Totte ham, for New South Wales, is riding► in the Uti l/ Stream. PLY krown-s, Tarr . 14.—Canat its the Johan►+ ~' Dutch ship, horn Amsterdam for Batavia, ou i twelve days, and another ship, and remain, wi►► bound. GRAvzs•Etib, JAN. - 15.— ,, Arrived the Wooa' burn, 111mtsti, from Leghorn. 3aileil the etros, llopc;soN, for New York, and fora• others• 10.—Arrivell his ith-fieSty's s hJT rainyluth, and his ILijesty's ship- ; artivgd, th.e. 11,1 ward anti- Mary,_ WAtLiSr Newhieihd)anil, with fish Imil• ' • 'Ci)Afi•E XCHANCC, JAN. bate had 40. 4 few tresb Miitrals since 11.1onday, but there sc 34 pen left. from that tt,ty far the demand ; Wheat sold . at Monday's-p-i•ice.s,,bt.tt there "S demand for Ordinary ; Fine is'scarce. 13 ' 4 inferior is dull; in Pease, Beans ; and Oat's'; tile l* i 3 00 altratiOrl. WiNhSOi r JAN. ro.—Yesterdsv her MA.iss l ! and Prioress EirzABRI-H, with their usual an coil: ants, took an airiug in a coach and four throng'''. Slotigh and hatchet. in the evening the had a Select party at the Castle. This tt►orniog: fixer Majesty and Princess Elizabeth rode Otit 10 so coach and four, up. the Long Walk,. iato Wid" wr Great Palk. 1_11IGHT0&,. jA.N. 14.:---At two o'clock this af' ternoon, Prince Vottusiti., tor and Getreedl .I)Thattowsttx, the Russian Noblemen evh-Q 0 1 1 rived here on hlonda7 afternoon, witlt a ictte l from the Eruperor Piiex4ttlriaato the PRLscs Re' GENT, took their departure for Came, to deliveit a letter of condolence from his Imperial M a jest y addressed to his 'serene Highness Ptinee LaoroLtio upon the death of the PRINCEss. The Noble F" - relguers, will return to the Pavilion on Friday next. By next. from tite Court Sweden, arrived at the Pavilion on 'IVIOndAy with a letter of co.ndolence to the PgiNcs 11 E' GENT upon the death of the Princess CmatuairlS' trf Wist. Es. Tire PirrNtelt-ek;esrt. ( k .rot lean the Pavilicm before:, the •10t oftiext.is.putly. Rova4 Highness - yesterday onjoyed his perantbo" lation about the Pavition enclosures: he looks.re markably in health. YeSterday the FUrci,.. ,, q Noblemen Prow Russia and Swecfen; inspected tb 6 liqUs E.---We t hi n k i t r i ght to contra ' whole of the interior ort he Pavilion. which has b een c urrent f or seve ral' dic t i n a tt r t. e T p (: ) N rt -. days, that it is the PRINCE ItE(ENT's into - 1,0,64.0 a re-furnish Carlton. House. We have cite 0104 untliudifiell'authority for vatting, that the interior embellishment's of that bewatifut L - Vace axe. fruaVY settled. The only alteration proposed• is the .rem moval of the Sefee4 COll , lllllls >u 11'041t.—(MOrnin; POSL Yesterday .being the Duke of GLOUCESTWG birth-dny, hits F.-isttty, the Princess SOPHIA, ill Curzon-street,. May-fair, had a party to cotritne' morate Ow day, at which /lie Royal Duke, her loother„ was restlit. Olt account of the we: awl damp state of the weather, the Duchess, wit Its a eorici, did tog leave Gioucester-boost:. • On Tuesday evening the Duke Of SUSSEX had a select party at Kensiogtou- . !)alace. The Duke 4 . Csllll3Ett LAND w i ts ii,inong those present. The PITT SctiooLAttsinv is 110 W vacant Mr. LAW, one of the. Sons of th e Bishop of CtSt , STPlit a son of Etta SeENCER NMI several Other lind:l— Candidates for this distinguish CA, honour in the University (tL: Carlihridge. Dr. COPE is appoint ed Dottles tic P•laysit!ii:ll ttoHis .. trace the Duke vl Nur.;„uvm,ti.:34LAND- A., ' t \ lit f i wl fr~~ , tv, o h t,,